We should send a probe across to that planet now, so that when we're actually developed enough to colonise it we'll already have data on it and be able to wipe out the local aliens with impunity.
"Steel wins battles. Gold wins wars."
Is that cake frosting?
We are already on a spaceship. A huge one. A pretty quick one too, compared to anything that we could build at the moment. We don't know how to steer it, and we are messing up our own life support something fierce; but still.
But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas.
o-o
Carc: So that mean I get to pilot Earth? :o
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Well this spaceship sucks then. I want a shiny one with fins and neon lights and shit.
Is that cake frosting?
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Well, if you manage to find the controls, who can stop you?
Hm, if we could somehow get the sun to send all of its flares in one specific direction, I'm sure that that could be used as some sort of (ludicrously slow, of course, considering the masses involved) reaction drive for the whole Solar System... 
edited 7th Nov '12 1:54:36 PM by Carciofus
But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas.
But combined together into one penis-shaped spaceship.
Or failing that, I take your idea and mutilate the various dolphins and whales, then superglue their fins onto signs or buildings with neon lights.
Is that cake frosting?
Why would you want fins in a spaceship, anyway? It's not like there is any sort of atmosphere to glide or swim through...
Also, I am not an espert on the topic of comparative urology, but I am pretty sure that most sets of male genitalia do not have fins or neons.
edited 7th Nov '12 2:07:32 PM by Carciofus
But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas.
So that's what this does
No, don't go to the stars.
Stars are hot. Go to the other planets instead.
I've said over and over that the cure for global warming is a new globe.
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As much as I like the idea of us founding Brave New Worlds on other planets, I am sad to admit that our generation won't see it, and most likely not even our grandsons and granddaughters.
I'm afraid it's only a dream for now.
One day, though.
One day we'll make it.
The Great Northern Threadkill.
@ Carcio: The Daleks had the right idea.
More reason to go to the stars!
We just found one of our first confirmed exo-planets in the habitable zone of a star.
@Carc: Male genitalia don't have fins or neons, but some have spikes! Those are kinda like fins, right?
edited 9th Nov '12 4:45:38 PM by LoniJay
Be not afraid...
@Carcio: There's a steering wheel at the North Pole! I read it in a reliable source.
o-o
Why was I half expecting the red link to say Jules Verne. >.>
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Why would Jules Verne not have his own article?
KVLFON
Has anybody mentioned the name for that penis-shaped ship? Millennium Phallus.
"Atheism is the religion whose followers are easiest to troll"
I presume we shall attempt to crash the Phallus (teehee) into the planet, therefore creating a new life!
...
... That's how terraforming works, right?
^ Well over a long enough timespan evolution will kinda do its thing to the planet from the ship's microbes....
edited 10th Nov '12 12:08:54 PM by MajorTom
Dood, I can't wait a million years for Space Cabbage! D:
'80s TV Action Hero
Space cabbages are dangerous, man.
'All he needs is for somebody to throw handgrenades at him for the rest of his life...'
They tend to carry parasites. Like these.
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edited 10th Nov '12 2:06:45 PM by TheFreeman
'80s TV Action Hero
Gagh! Space Cabbagefly!
'All he needs is for somebody to throw handgrenades at him for the rest of his life...'
Hooray! :D
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